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Tesla

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Tesla has appeared in 692 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 35 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Elon Musk, Twitter, Elon, Elon Musk's.

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Between April 18 and April 21, 2026, eight uncoordinated companies shipped an embodied AI system — a humanoid that beat the half-marathon world record in Beijin...
The Unification
SpaceX and xAI are in advanced merger talks ahead of a planned IPO. Bloomberg reports Tesla may be absorbed too — creating a single Musk-controlled entity spann...

Coverage Timeline

2026-06-15
Wired

Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people

A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.

2026-06-14
Wired 1 related

Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people

A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.

2026-05-30
Reuters 14 related

Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology

2026-05-29
Reuters 10 related

Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology

Tesla says its Full Self-Driving software is up to 10 times safer than human drivers.  But the figures the company uses to support …

2026-04-13
New York Times 1 related

A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posts its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla, hitting 2M+ views; a verified @elonmusk Instagram account has yet to post

A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

2026-04-01
Wired 13 related

Letters to Senator Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't drive their vehicles; Tesla says its operators are authorized to do so

2026-02-23
Wired 9 related

Documents submitted by Waymo and Tesla to the US government reveal new info about the remote assistance programs for their robotaxis, staffed by human operators

Self-driving vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain.

2026-02-22
Wired 2 related

Documents submitted by Waymo and Tesla to the US government reveal new info about the remote assistance programs for their robotaxis, staffed by human operators

Self-driving vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain.

2025-12-26
New York Times 7 related

Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors

What?  Oh, never mind.  —  We'll always have Twitter to remember him.  [embedded post] Mastodon: @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai : @Techmeme  —  The safety record of this minuscule population of vehicle...

2025-11-02
New York Times

A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b... … Noam Scheiber / @noamscheiber : I have a profile up today of the transparency activist and Tesla skeptic ‪Aaron Greenspan‬, who's unearthed lots of evidence undercutt...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Tesla has appeared in 518 Techmeme articles since February 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he... and Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he.... Frequently covered alongside Elon Musk, Autopilot, NHTSA, FSD, and Twitter. Coverage has shifted toward safety, consumer themes and away from regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +15pts; safety -7pts; consumer +26pts
2024Q3consumer -46pts; research +14pts; regulation +26pts
2024Q4enterprise -18pts; safety +5pts; developer +10pts

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